King William dined each Christmas here, and Glo'ster folks it pleases,
To know the food he relished most was double Berkeley cheeses.
The ladies, Heaven bless 'em all! as sure as I've a nose on,
In former times had only thorns and skewers to stick their clothes on;
No damsel then was worth a pin, whate'er it might have cost her,
Till gentle Johnny Tilsby came, and invented pins in Glo'ster.
Your fine cathedral when I saw, tho' much I was delighted,
Yet in the whisp'ring gallery I got most sadly frighted;
Some question there I asked myself, when not a soul was near me,
And suddenly an answer came, as if the walls could hear me.